BCC storm the Opera House on November 24th, 2007 to shake the walls of the aging venue with that raw Duck Down shit. Pretty much everyone showed up including Buckshot of Black Moon, Smif-N-Wessun, and Heltah Skeltah (Sean Price & Rockness Monster). Sick, grimy and for true heads only. Sean Price was promoting his new [...]
Zach Slootsky of TakeMorePhotos covered this event, which is a first in a series of collaborations between our sites. It is also the first all black and white feature on Dope-A-Lot and the pictures are absolutely stunning. Although I couldn’t personally attend, I heard the event was great with Percee P stealing the show from [...]
Written by Noah Goodbaum | Photography by Philip Litevsky
There’s something about Method Man. Every rap fan knows it. There’s something about him that makes certain extra-scuzzy similes seem like they don’t belong in any rapper’s lyrics but his. Something about his charisma that allows him to insert his trademark flecks of grime into R&B jams [...]
Written by Sean Ward | Photography by Philip Litevsky
Everybody knows that Toronto has a reputation as a complacent audience. We go to a live show and we mostly stare at it like it’s television, clapping politely and maybe even whooping a bit in all of the right places. It’s hard for an artist [...]
Little Brother perform at the Mod Club as part of a tour promoting their recent album, Get Back.
I always love seeing Little Brother perform live. The Durham, North Carolina troupe caught my ear a few years back with the Chittlin’ Circuit mix tape and then the follow-up debut The Listening. 9th Wonder’s production was [...]
Written by Noah Goodbaum | Photography by Philip Litevsky
Fire and brimstone, blood, sweat and tears. Fearless, ferocious, indomitable. Headstrong in the face of turmoil and danger, as implacable as the elements. That’s Brother Ali. Or rather, that’s the vibe Brother Ali gives off on record throughout most of his two officially released albums, Shadows On [...]
Written by Noah Goodbaum
Let me admit something to y’all: When it comes to Canadian hip-hop, I’m generally a bit of a skeptic. I taught myself that critical assessment of skillz has to come before hometown or national pride when evaluating an artist, and I had myself believing that, when measured [...]
With so much happening in the city, not the least of which preparations for ManifesTO, we’ve been busy, to say the least. Talib Kweli dropped by the Phoenix late last month to promote his new album Eardrum, and Jean Grae came along to support the Blacksmith movement. Unfortunately, our resident correspondent Noah couldn’t make it [...]
This is a late one since I had too many events with actual reviews to post first. These photos are from the same event as the Little Brother shots I posted a while back, only at night. Unfortunately, ?uestlove didn’t make it to the show, but the awesome folks over at REMG more than made [...]
Written by Noah Goodbaum | Photography by Philip Litevsky
I don’t really know Jesse Ohtake. Before the night of Saturday the 24th, I don’t think I’d ever met Jesse Ohtake. I knew the name ‘Jesse Ohtake’—enough reputable cats an’ dames in the T-Dot rap scene scream his name that it sorta occurred to me I oughta [...]
